Port forwaring (so I can use emule on Windows XP)

[drkirkby]

I've got VirtualBox 3.2.8 on an OpenSolaris 06/2009 host with an XP professional guest. Emule is running in the guest. (For those that do not know, its a P2P networking software, which has a server.

This is fundamentally not different from running an SSH server or any other sort of server on the guest.

One can configure the ports the server listens on.

I'v found two totally different ways on the web for doing this.

http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic. ... ight=emule

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VBoxManage setextradata "XP-with-SP3" "VBoxInternal/Devices/pcnet/0/LUN#0/Config/guestEmule_TCP/Protocol" TCP
VBoxManage setextradata "XP-with-SP3" "VBoxInternal/Devices/pcnet/0/LUN#0/Config/guestEmule_TCP/GuestPort" 55555
VBoxManage setextradata "XP-with-SP3" "VBoxInternal/Devices/pcnet/0/LUN#0/Config/guestEmule_TCP/HostPort" 55555

VBoxManage setextradata "XP-with-SP3" "VBoxInternal/Devices/pcnet/0/LUN#0/Config/guestEmule_UDP/Protocol" UDP
VBoxManage setextradata "XP-with-SP3" "VBoxInternal/Devices/pcnet/0/LUN#0/Config/guestEmule_UDP/GuestPort" 55565
VBoxManage setextradata "XP-with-SP3" "VBoxInternal/Devices/pcnet/0/LUN#0/Config/guestEmule_UDP/HostPort" 55565 

and the VirtualBox manual seems to imply one needs something totally different

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VBoxManage modifyvm "XP-with-SP3" --natpf1 "emule,tcp,,40405,,40405"
VBoxManage modifyvm "XP-with-SP3" --natpf1 "emule,udp,,40565,,40565"

Neither are working for me. If I try to telnet from the OpenSolaris host to the port selected, I would expect it to connect to the emule server, but it does not.

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$ telnet localhost 55555
Trying ::1...
telnet: connect to address ::1: Connection refused
Trying 127.0.0.1...
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused

Any ideas?

[Perryg]

That's because the topic you referred to was from an older version.

The second example is the one to use but you need to make sure that you have forwarded the proper ports.